[Asterisk-code-review] cdr.c: Eliminated simple RAII VAR usages. (asterisk[13])

[Kevin Harwell]

Kevin Harwell has posted comments on this change. ( https://gerrit.asterisk.org/6722 )

Change subject: cdr.c: Eliminated simple RAII_VAR usages.
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> > > These are definitely not whitespace changes. Some of the exit
 > > paths now do not call ao2_cleanup() when the cleanup object is
 > > always going to be NULL.
 > >
 > > Right, but it's still just moving code around for the sake of it.
 > > These changes have no bearing on functionality. I'm not
 > necessarily
 > > against it (heck lots of the code could use some refactoring).
 > >
 > > I'm more wondering for changes like these if we need a coding
 > > guidelines rule similar to the whitespace one.
 > >
 > > Anyone else feel free to chime in with opinions.
 > 
 > The current policy is that we allow new features if they have
 > testing, so don't see why we wouldn't allow non-breaking
 > improvements to code which already has testing.  RAII_VAR is more
 > expensive than directly calling ao2_cleanup so this is a minor
 > optimization even in paths where the cleanup object will never be
 > NULL.

I agree with all this too. Maybe for similar reasons and problems it could cause with merging we should just remove the stipulation from the coding guidelines that whitespace/formatting changes can only go into master.


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